In my cutlery drawer resides the six piece steak knife set my mother redeemed her “S & H Green Stamps” for in about 1963.
She was awarded them by “A & P” when she bought the family’s groceries there (I’ve just learned that “A & P” disappeared from the list of U.S. grocery retailers in 2015).
Working at a service station (that’s gas, water, oil, battery, tires, minor & major repairs to those of you unfamiliar with what it used to be), we gave out Blue Chip stamps. Don’t remember what you could get, but I remember helping my mom paste them into books so they could be redeemed (and I didn’t bring home any “extras”). {^¿^}
I think we got the S&H Green Stamps at the Acme and Plaid stamps at the A&P. When I was a kid we got ahold of a tape recorder and made our own Mission Impossible tape. It was about recovering stolen S&H&I&T Brown Stamps (pretty hysterical for us preteens).
Acme & Plaid stamps? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of them. Of course, A&P stood for Atlantic & Pacific.
I assume everyone (at least those in the USA) knows the old gag about A&P merging with Stop & Shop. The resultant company was to be called Stop & P.
I’ve read that both S&H and Blue Chip stamps maintain phone lines, where you can still redeem full books for a small amount of cash.
I thought both companies were completely defunct, but apparently, for some legal reason, they didn’t completely take away the value… But it’s less than people try to sell them for as collectibles (and probably don’t get.)
I used to save Blue Chip ones myself. I lived near a redemption center, but I never collected enough to get anything much. That might be where I got my little pepper grinder.
An illustration from:
“Railway Ribaldry: Being 96 Pages of Railway Humour ” By: W.Heath Robinson
It was published in 1935 as part of the 100th anniversary of Great Western Railway in England.
It’s still around as part of a conglomerate.
Rube Goldberg was America’s William Heath Robinson.
This picture link is one of two advertisements in the comic that are as close to the cover as the content gets (the other is a weight loss advertisement). Note too, that while the women pictured appear to be in at least their early twenties, Mary Myles died a little short of four months before her 18th birthday.
The resolution is so poor on so many that I went right to the answers.
Answer :
1. Angle Iron
2. Above It All
3. Untoward Behavior
4. Hanging Chad
5. Breakaway
6. Falling Down
7. High Rise Building
8. Ice On Bridge
9. I Can’t Believe It
10. I Understand
11. Stuck In The Middle With You
12. All Star Game
13. Broken Dreams
14. A Bold Plan
15. Fading Into Nothing
16. The Jet Stream
17. Cropped Up
18. Dark Room
19. A Blank Expression
20. Bipedal
I had to post the U.R.L. to “Shishkabugs” as a “code block.”
Daily Motion’s programming starts the cartoon automatically on arrival at the page if it’s just pasted in.
Nor do the people behind the programming supply a menu to stop play; you can only mute the volume.
Almost all of the niggly bits are completed, and I can finish them on today’s comic’s date so I’m back in operation.
Today’s Songs:
1. ‘High School Confidential ,’ 2. ‘Highway to Hell ,’ 3. ‘Hippy Hippy Shake ,’ and 4. ‘Hit Me With Your Best Shot ,’ and the ‘Cheap Thrills Cuisine’ recipe 5. ‘Chocolate Chunk Shortbread ‘
1. Another song by a Canadian group, ‘Rough Trade’ that should have made it bigger. I can find no evidence that it was ever played south of the border.
The Boston ‘blue-nosers’ who banned ‘Wake Up Little Susie’ would probably have run screaming from the room upon hearing this.
2. The title comes from one of its composers, Angus Young. He referred to the band’s promotional tours as a ‘highway to Hell’.
3. The original release of 1959 by its composer, Chan Romero.
4. Because of her personal feelings about mass shootings in the U.S. combined with the song’s title, Ms. Benatar no longer performs this song.
Its composer, Canadian Eddie Schwartz, came up with the title as a result of a ‘pillow punching’ therapy session in T.O. (and that’s about all you need to know about T.O.).
5. I get shortbread from my aunt in the Soo each Christmas. Chocolate lovers may disagree with me, but I don’t think properly made shortbread, as is my aunt’s, can be improved by the addition of chocolate.
I can’t think of anyone here who doesn’t like planes.
This LINK leads to an episode of Terry O’reilly’s “Under The Influence” I missed the first time around (it was replayed on December 14 of this year). It’s an examination of the use sky-writing for advertising and other things over the years since its debut in England in 1922 (it came out of the technique British Pilots used to create smoke screens for the protection of naval ships during WW I).
The episode opens with a summary of how it was used at Woodstock and John-and-Yoko’s use of it in Canada and New York City.
Twenty seven and a half minutes of interesting anecdotes and history.
It’s fun to listen to! !
.
Derp!
NOSE!
So that’s what happened to the toy robot I got for Christmas back in the Stone Age…
Me catch! Wife, you cook up good! Me go back for other one!
“First Contact” By: Mark Bryan
2 NOSES!
Not much meat on that one.
You could maybe get a small bowl of chips out of it.
And a spring salad?
The old ones had a high iron content, but the newer ones probably don’t.
In my cutlery drawer resides the six piece steak knife set my mother redeemed her “S & H Green Stamps” for in about 1963.
She was awarded them by “A & P” when she bought the family’s groceries there (I’ve just learned that “A & P” disappeared from the list of U.S. grocery retailers in 2015).
Working at a service station (that’s gas, water, oil, battery, tires, minor & major repairs to those of you unfamiliar with what it used to be), we gave out Blue Chip stamps. Don’t remember what you could get, but I remember helping my mom paste them into books so they could be redeemed (and I didn’t bring home any “extras”). {^¿^}
I think we got the S&H Green Stamps at the Acme and Plaid stamps at the A&P. When I was a kid we got ahold of a tape recorder and made our own Mission Impossible tape. It was about recovering stolen S&H&I&T Brown Stamps (pretty hysterical for us preteens).
Acme & Plaid stamps? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of them. Of course, A&P stood for Atlantic & Pacific.
I assume everyone (at least those in the USA) knows the old gag about A&P merging with Stop & Shop. The resultant company was to be called Stop & P.
I’ve read that both S&H and Blue Chip stamps maintain phone lines, where you can still redeem full books for a small amount of cash.
I thought both companies were completely defunct, but apparently, for some legal reason, they didn’t completely take away the value… But it’s less than people try to sell them for as collectibles (and probably don’t get.)
I used to save Blue Chip ones myself. I lived near a redemption center, but I never collected enough to get anything much. That might be where I got my little pepper grinder.
,
An illustration from:
“Railway Ribaldry: Being 96 Pages of Railway Humour ” By: W.Heath Robinson
It was published in 1935 as part of the 100th anniversary of Great Western Railway in England.
It’s still around as part of a conglomerate.
Rube Goldberg was America’s William Heath Robinson.
Were the passengers waiting in their seats during this refitting?
I assume those passenger cars also needed narrowing..
So when six seats across got narrowed to four, some people must have had to sit in each others laps.
Feed me, Seymour!
Link to Little House of Horrors from whence the phrase comes…
It isn’t cheap to feed a hippo!
Are least they don’t eat steak.
must be a Christmas Present, LOL
,,
This picture link is one of two advertisements in the comic that are as close to the cover as the content gets (the other is a weight loss advertisement). Note too, that while the women pictured appear to be in at least their early twenties, Mary Myles died a little short of four months before her 18th birthday.
..
Answer :
1. Angle Iron
2. Above It All
3. Untoward Behavior
4. Hanging Chad
5. Breakaway
6. Falling Down
7. High Rise Building
8. Ice On Bridge
9. I Can’t Believe It
10. I Understand
11. Stuck In The Middle With You
12. All Star Game
13. Broken Dreams
14. A Bold Plan
15. Fading Into Nothing
16. The Jet Stream
17. Cropped Up
18. Dark Room
19. A Blank Expression
20. Bipedal
I can’t see tonight. But i think know what 18 is.
Yeah, there are 2 or 3 I can’t see well enough to read the words, so they’re impossible.
Just a “?” means i don’t know, not that I can’t read it.
1. Angle iron?
2. Over it all? Above it all?
3. ?
4. Hanging chad (a bit dated)
5. Breaking away
6. Falling down
7. High rise building?
8. Can’t read
9. Maybe “I can’t believe it” but it’s a stretch. Especially with believe misspelled.
10. I understand
11. can’t read
12. All star game ( IF the word in the middle is “game”, otherwise ?)
13. Broken dreams
14. A bold plan
15. Fading into nothing
16. Jetstream?
17. Cut-up?
18.? (drawing a blank would be white)
19. A fallen expression?
20. ?
,.
BUNNIES!
Have another one.
…and with much better resolution
Have a Bunny Bus 😉
NOSE!
Gray Hare Transit!
NOSE!
Hasenpfeffer!
I had to post the U.R.L. to “Shishkabugs” as a “code block.”
Daily Motion’s programming starts the cartoon automatically on arrival at the page if it’s just pasted in.
Nor do the people behind the programming supply a menu to stop play; you can only mute the volume.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5wxoeh
Right clicking on the block and opening it in a new window will get you there.
Booo!
2 NOSES!
Almost all of the niggly bits are completed, and I can finish them on today’s comic’s date so I’m back in operation.
1. ‘High School Confidential ,’ 2. ‘Highway to Hell ,’ 3. ‘Hippy Hippy Shake ,’ and 4. ‘Hit Me With Your Best Shot ,’ and the ‘Cheap Thrills Cuisine’ recipe 5. ‘Chocolate Chunk Shortbread ‘
1. Another song by a Canadian group, ‘Rough Trade’ that should have made it bigger. I can find no evidence that it was ever played south of the border.
The Boston ‘blue-nosers’ who banned ‘Wake Up Little Susie’ would probably have run screaming from the room upon hearing this.
2. The title comes from one of its composers, Angus Young. He referred to the band’s promotional tours as a ‘highway to Hell’.
3. The original release of 1959 by its composer, Chan Romero.
4. Because of her personal feelings about mass shootings in the U.S. combined with the song’s title, Ms. Benatar no longer performs this song.
Its composer, Canadian Eddie Schwartz, came up with the title as a result of a ‘pillow punching’ therapy session in T.O. (and that’s about all you need to know about T.O.).
5. I get shortbread from my aunt in the Soo each Christmas. Chocolate lovers may disagree with me, but I don’t think properly made shortbread, as is my aunt’s, can be improved by the addition of chocolate.
I can’t think of anyone here who doesn’t like planes.
This LINK leads to an episode of Terry O’reilly’s “Under The Influence” I missed the first time around (it was replayed on December 14 of this year). It’s an examination of the use sky-writing for advertising and other things over the years since its debut in England in 1922 (it came out of the technique British Pilots used to create smoke screens for the protection of naval ships during WW I).
The episode opens with a summary of how it was used at Woodstock and John-and-Yoko’s use of it in Canada and New York City.
Twenty seven and a half minutes of interesting anecdotes and history.
It’s fun to listen to! !
e glad you aren’t wearing a red shirt.
Like Scotty?
Or security. Not a good job to have in Star Fleet.
Does Indonesian “Duck in Spiced Coconut Sauce” count?
it all counts—but it counts more if there’s peppers in it
There are.
Not many, but with a lot of oomph.
I say it doesn’t count as Pepper Pot cos that’s a specific dish… and I don’t like it.
It’s Caribbean, made with tripe and a lot of black pepper, not Asian, and not with duck, coconut, or chilis.
I’d probably like the duck one better, if it’s not too spicy.
I’d say Claude won this round.
Plenty of people would love to be beamed aboard the Enterprise.
Of course, they’d probably like to know they could get home again, too. And safely.
Details, just details.
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